Update, 3:56 p.m.: Our Jeff Weiss reports on the education blog that the teacher heard in the video has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation of what led up to the outburst. The school district will not identify the teacher.

Updated at 11:50:

Jeff Weiss over on the Education blog reports that Bliss has met with the principal at Duncanville High and won’t face any discipline.

“The principal and student visited this morning,” according to a statement from the district, “and no further action will be taken regarding the student.”

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After being kicked out of class by his world history teacher, Duncanville High School sophomore Jeff Bliss ranted to her in front of his class about everything she was doing wrong.

In the 84-second video, he talks over the teacher, lecturing her about her classroom teaching style. “If you would just get up and teach us instead of handing ‘em a packet yo,” Bliss said in the video. He is an 18-year-old sophomore who dropped out of school and then returned, according to WFAA-TV (Channel 8). “There’s kids in here that don’t learn like that… they need to learn face-to-face,”You want kids to come to class? You want them to get excited? You gotta come in here, you gotta make ‘em excited, to change him and make him better, you gotta touch his freakin’ heart.”

Bliss told Channel 8 that he doesn’t regret his rant and that “somebody needed to say this.”

In the video he goes on to tell his teacher that he has “done nothing but read packets” and she has to “take this job seriously. This is the future of this nation.”

As of right now, it is unclear whether Bliss will face any disciplinary action but the school principal asked to meet with him, the student told Channel 8. Duncanville ISD officials have also been made aware of the video that a student in the class recorded on a cell phone. Bliss said he was not aware he was being recorded.

“As a district with a motto of Engaging Hearts and Minds we focus on building positive relationships with students and designing engaging work that is meaningful,” the district said in a statement. “We want our students and teachers to be engaged, but the method by which the student expressed his concern could have been handled in a more appropriate way. We are and will continue to be open to listening to students.”

Bud Kennedy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram writes that while no one wants teachers “dating the senior class,” neither should we be filling our prisons “with schoolteachers who have romances with other adults.”

Kennedy says the Texas Legislature went too far with a 2003 law that provides for up to 20 yeas in prison for a teacher who has an intimate relationship with a student at his or her school, even if that student is 18 or 19 — legally an adult.

The columnist writes that the law began as an effort to protect students 17 or younger. And it began with a maximum penalty of two years in jail.

Then legislators decided to show how tough they were on crime. The age limit was removed. The maximum sentence was increased to 20 years in prison.

The result, Kennedy says? A teacher in Texas can go to prison for decades for any sexual intimacy with a student from that teacher’s school — even if the student is an adult, and even if the exact same relationship outside the school would mean the two of them could “fly off to Vegas and post Facebook photos from the Bellagio spa.”

“We got to the point where we were literally bargaining for body parts. We were like, ‘Can you cut here? Can you just take the hand? Can you take this part and leave the rest? Can you just take the feet?’ ”

When students, parents and other supporters of the Dallas arts magnet got together earlier this month to protest potential deep budget cuts at the school, one of them did what comes naturally: He started playing and singing.

Christian Vasquez, the junior who filmed Skinner, is quoted by CBS 11 as saying, “I think the video does a good job expressing how much the students here care about their education and their school. …This is what you are cutting.”

– Jon Dahlander, spokesman for the Dallas Independent School District, acknowledging that 840 DISD students live in Farmers Branch — a 6,500 percent increase over the district’s earlier estimate, 13 students.

Montana Lance committed suicide in a nurse’s bathroom at Stewart’s Creek Elementary School in The Colony. The federal suit, filed last Friday by his family, claims that school officials failed to provide a safe environment for the boy. His parents, Jason and Debbie Lance, have said that Montana was a frequent target of bullying.

A spokeswoman said the school district does not comment on pending litigation. She added, however, that an internal investigation concluded that bullying was not connected to the suicide.